What is the market really doing?
We get asked this question daily so we decided to conduct a 3-Week, 100 Auction Report challenge during the month of May.
Well, there were no surprises! All three measurements showed that the Inner Melbourne market is in what we call “boom times”, but now, since 2008, increasingly what we call [...]

Happy Mothers Day to all our Mums – the real home decision makers.
This week in James Market News:
Market Commentary – Three-week Challenge of 100 reported auctions
Auction Action – 33 auction results
Inside James – buy-then-sell service and Mal’s auction observations
At 6.00pm Saturday, the overall Inner Melbourne market results were solid, if you just look at the Clearance [...]

It was a quiet-ish day today on market – off market is a different story – the auction biggies for May starting in numbers the week after next.
At that time we will be focusing on James Bidderman (for any movement in demand) and any drop off from overseas buyers.
Has all the talk of late begun to bite?
This [...]

Beautiful Decisions – Buy/Sell
Welcome to our final series for the year – over the next three weeks we will try to highlight just how much is added to your life with beautiful decisions.
This final 2016 series is about getting the most out of buying and selling a home via a beautiful decision.
We are splitting the series [...]

Welcome to our 2016 Bumper Christmas Edition.
In this, our last article for 2016 – the key to good sex, nothing about that American bloke and a segment on how to get $70,000 for free every year.
Plenty of positives, but apologies we don’t seem to have any fake news!
And to the Inner Melbourne Market.
Wow, what a finish [...]

Its 6.00pm Saturday and the James Clearance rate for $M+ Inner Melbourne was 74% on the 23 Auctions we covered today – solid.
James Bidderman, that is bidders per auction, was 2.3 bidders per auction – also a solid number.
Interesting to note the spread across the board, at the Top End, was fairly even between ducks/lone rangers, norms and [...]

Special Edition – James International Demand Report for Inner Melbourne $M+ housing
Today we have ditched our across Melbourne auction coverage and focused on assessing the change (if any) to International Demand within the Melbourne Property Market.
James Bidderman, Bayside, Stonnington and clearance rates have been sidelined, so as we could focus almost all our resources on assessing [...]

$3m+ is James Buyer Advocates bread and butter. We find the $3m+ market is normally a lot looser than the $1m+ market; meaning results vary more widely. This occurs for two key reasons:
1. Sellers have more flex on whether they will sell or not and often demand big prices and just wait – sometimes they [...]

年轻购房者的问题和解决方案
Young Homebuyers Issues & Solutions
James 市场总结
James Market Summary
* 在惯例的七月冬季，墨尔本房产市场拍卖数量刮起了一股下降之风。看一下右方我们拍卖房产的图表—-很多人正开始暂停拍卖。
* 竞标者数量今天有所下降，然而房产质量本月有明显松动。
* 流拍较我们近期看到的要多，这是房产质量征兆的一部分，这同样也反应了卖主预期与市场博弈的情况。
* 在我们参加的27场拍卖中，81%的拍卖有2-6位竞标者，只要市场按这个力度走，这是个非常非常坚实的结果。
* 总的来讲，我们今天看到的，不多。市场的成交在心理上受到了媒体讨论的影响（这并不是抱怨——我们需要有这种讨论），虽然过一个周末长假，房产质量有所降低，但还是有了坚实的结果。
* 另外，欢迎回到James市场新闻（本周与下周将是大专题）。欢迎年轻的购房者在下两周分享我们的专题文章，然后在7月份学校假期期间市场新闻会暂停，James购房中介仍对客户开放。
The Inner Melbourne Market is beginning its wind down into the traditional July Winter break. Look at our forward auction stock graphs to the right – most are beginning to shut up shop.
Bidderman was down today, however stock quality has also noticeably eased this [...]

James Market Summary
The Inner Melbourne Market is beginning its wind down into the traditional July Winter break. Look at our forward auction stock graphs to the right – most are beginning to shut up shop.
Bidderman was down today, however stock quality has also noticeably eased this month.
More pass-ins than we have seen for a while, which is [...]

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